A Falklands War veteran caused fury when he said small boats carrying migrants to the UK should be shot. Major-General Julian Thompson, 92, a former commander of 3 Commando Brigade, commanding Operation Sutton, the attack at San Carlos Water in May 1982, on the ground. "I would shoot them," Maj. Gen. Thompson said in a YouTube documentary produced by Steven Edginton. "We could stop them tomorrow, if we really had the guts. I'd shoot them, sorry, but I would," he added. "We've allowed it to happen. We're wet […] We've allowed it to happen"

"As long as they don't come around here, I don't mind what they do," Maj. Gen. Thompson told the Mail on Sunday. The former Royal Marine added: "They come over here and rape our girls. One machine-gun blast is all it would take […] then they would get the message

"I just want them to bugger off." He warned that if the Government did not stop them, then there "will be a revolution". "Our leaders are just wet," Maj. Gen. Thompson said, also suggested the country is "not Britain any more"

He added: "It's a sort of funny conglomeration of people, and in a wet country that allows itself to be pushed around all over the place." He even went as far to so: "I'm glad I won't see it; I'll be dead"

Maj. Gen. Thompson also called Islam "a flawed religion" in that "women are totally out". "They can be treated like chattels, and children the same," he said

A Home Office spokesman said: "This Government is bearing down on dangerous and illegal crossings. Anyone who seeks to take the law into their own hands is putting lives at risk and will face serious criminal consequences"